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Version: 11.11.0

Prebid.js on Web

This article explains how you can connect THEOplayer with Prebid.js. Prebid.js is an open-source header bidding solution. On the client-side, you can request bids from multiple ad networks, take a winning bid and select its associated advertisement. You want to configure and play this selected advertisement in THEOplayer.

Because Prebid.js is a separate library, you can connect it with THEOplayer on any platform that supports both Prebid.js and THEOplayer.

Prebid.js allows you to request bids. This request will respond with bids through a callback function. In this callback function, you have to select a winning bid and extract the ad tag URL. You can configure this URL as THEOplayer's ad source.

Code example​

The code example below is based on the documentation offered by Prebid.org here.

The sample application at https://cdn.theoplayer.com/demos/prebidjs.html is an example of implementing Prebid.js on top of the THEOplayer Web SDK.

The example above schedules advertisements as pre-rolls (or mid-rolls or post-rolls). You can also dynamically schedule advertisements with the Ads API, as explained in How to set up VAST and VMAP ads.

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